Louis-Ferdinand Céline Short Quotes

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It's harder to lose the wish to love than the wish to live.

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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offense.

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In the kingdom of the "fallen in the shit" the lunatics are king.

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Hate gave birth to the slang; Slang ('argot') exists not anymore.

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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

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I should give all the works of Baudelaire for a female Olympic swimmer.

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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

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In democratic politics it is money that commands. And the money is Jewish.

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I should be able to get the alligators to dance to the tune of the pan pipe.

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My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

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We are, by nature, so futile that distraction alone can prevent us from dying altogether.

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

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When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.

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Life is filigree work... What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

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A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple; she'll never go very far.―

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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

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The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

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You [Jews] terrify no one. The sun sinks, you swank about to the right, to the left. Europe forms up against you.

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Everything interesting takes place in the dark; there is no doubt about it. We know nothing of the true story of the men. ―

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In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavour, it's indispensable. ―

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I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage. ―

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In this society which we are induced to frequent, composed above all of politicians and artists, one cannot realize one's true worth.

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Those who talk about the future are scoundrels. It is the present that matters. To evoke one's posterity is to make a speech to maggots.

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An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.

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The three radios, the six cars, the four refrigerators, the seven telephones in each of the 300,000 Jewish households, and the super-television!

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